Sentence examples for by a convinced from inspiring English sources

The locus classicus of formalism is not a defence of the position by a convinced advocate, but a demolition job by a great philosopher, Gottlob Frege.

By now a convinced Anglophile, he tried to enlist in the Canadian air force but was rejected because of his poor eyesight.

By contrast, a convinced technophobe attitude is found in Group 2 (16% of interviewees) in which a high perception of risk and concern with the long-term effects on health and the environment accompany the idea of the futility of technology and the absence of benefits for diet and food choices.

By 1895 Driesch was a convinced vitalist.

Jacques, by contrast, writes like a convinced essentialist.

This dispute is the subject of "The Language Wars: A History of Proper English" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by the English journalist Henry Hitchings, a convinced descriptivist.

By then, Oparin was also a convinced evolutionist.

From the very beginning, then, Darwin abhorred slavery; and he was already a convinced abolitionist by the time he boarded the Beagle in 1831 for his formative round-the-world voyage.

He left Abbotsholme a convinced Marxist, persuaded, notably, by the writing of John Strachey.

The board's "Christian faction," the article said, was dominated by Don McLeroy, a creationist convinced that separation of church and state is a myth perpetrated by secular liberals.

Levine remembers that listening to "Are You That Somebody?" by Aaliyah convinced him to pursue a more soulful sound than that of his then-band Kara's Flowers.